Wednesday, January 5

ENGLISH - 2nd trimester – Day 17

Collect homework: Chart of characters from both families (14 total) from 805 (adding Prince and Mercutio; but not including an old man, Peter, Balthasar), proven round or flat (explain why); also, list 3 sets of foils from the play and explain why you think they are foils to each other.

Took Romeo & Juliet Act 1 test (30 questions)

Assembled famous soliloquy from Act 2 with 2 other partners (scatterbrained soliloquy activity) – check pgs. 845 - 846 for answers

Using Act 2, Scene 2 overhead, numbered a paper 1 – 34 and paraphrased (put into simpler language) the famous soliloquy from Act 2 (pgs. 845 – 846) by writing out the 34 fill-in-blanks – COLLECTED

ENGLISH homework:

None.

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PLAYWRITING – Day 19

Shared all phone conversations from yesterday.

(Per Barry Lane) Wrote about concerns…what are they? What does it mean to be concerned…in class, school, neighborhood, town, state, country, world...

Listed all the things that really bother you - things that are just not right – classified them as either personal or global:

Chose one concern off our lists and in 5 minutes, listed as many questions as possible about that concern – then classified them as factual, wonder, or silly

THE POINT: Whenever you get stuck in your writing, try asking questions.

PLAYWRITING homework:

Using newspapers or the internet, find 3 articles (or at least headlines) about stories that CONCERN you. Bring these to class tomorrow either printed, cut out, or handwritten.